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Mind Over Matter, published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd (whose first album, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, was released in 1967) and a Pink Floyd artwork *exhibition, is a visual feast celebrating Pink Floyd’s best album covers and artwork.

Nearly all of the images which have embodied the music of Pink Floyd are here including such graphic icons as The Dark Side Of The Moon, Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here and The Division Bell. These designs are some of the most powerful in contemporary graphics and represent the very best of innovative photography and computer manipulation.

This fourth updated edition of Mind Over Matter contains 50 new additional pages, features Pink Floyd’s most recent album covers, posters, DVDs, single bags, T shirts, adverts etc and has a new cover specially designed for the occasion which was photographed with great difficulty in the remote wilds of Utah.

Storm Thorgerson’s text describes in witty detail the genesis and production of all the designs.

*An exhibition of Pink Floyd artwork by Storm Thorgerson will be at Elms Lesters Gallery, 1-3-5 Flitcroft Street, London, WC2H 8DH (tel: 020 7836 6747 / www.elmslesters.co.uk), from Friday 16th November until Saturday 1st December 2007. Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12pm – 6pm, Thursdays until 9pm. Free admission.

Storm Thorgerson (www.stormthorgerson.com) is an English artist who was a key member of the British graphic art group known as Hipgnosis. He designed many of the most famous album covers of all time, including Pink Floyd’s instantly recognizable Dark Side Of The Moon, directed numerous rock videos, long forms, commercials and TV documentaries and continues to design covers for Phish, Ian Dury, Cranberries, Pink Floyd, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons and others.

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The 40th Anniversary year of Pink Floyd ends with a typical flourish, the release of, Oh By The Way, a spectacular limited edition box set which contains, for the first time ever, the band’s 14 studio albums. These classic albums are presented in mini vinyl wallets with all the original extras also miniaturised.

Floyd’s longtime design wizard, Storm Thorgerson, has designed a sumptuous box, as well as miniaturising the original sleeve artwork. Oh By The Way is released on EMI Records on 10 December 2007 (11 December in the US).

This unique box set is the first time in Pink Floyd’s incomparable history that all of their standard studio albums have been packaged together and made available as a set. In addition to the albums and their extras the set comes with a specially designed 40th Anniversary Storm Thorgerson fabric poster featuring 40 Floyd images.

Oh By the Way contains:

• THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (Single wallet) August 1967
• A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (Single wallet) July 1968
• MORE (Single wallet) June 1969
• UMMAGUMMA (Gatefold 2 discs) November 1969
• ATOM HEART MOTHER (Gatefold) October 1970
• MEDDLE (Gatefold) November 1971
• OBSCURED BY CLOUDS (Single wallet rounded corners) June 1972
• THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON(Gatefold + 2 posters + 2 stickers) March 1973
• WISH YOU WERE HERE (Single + liner + postcard + black shrinkwrap) September 1975
• ANIMALS (Gatefold) February 1977
• THE WALL (Gatefold 2 discs) December 1979
• THE FINAL CUT (Single wallet) April 1983
• A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON (Gatefold) September 1987
• DIVISION BELL (Gatefold) April 1994

Many of these 14 Pink Floyd albums regularly appear in the ‘Greatest’ lists of all time. They represent a body of artistic work which captured the imagination of fans across the globe.

Oh By The Way will be a must for the legion of Pink Floyd fans worldwide, who will note the careful reproduction of the original classic labels. The box set will no doubt be figuring high on the Christmas wish list of many of the new generation of Floyd fans, as the band’s musical legacy continues to exert a powerful appeal some 40 years after it played its first notes.

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